This game is really horrible. not only it is way too slow to be acceptable by today standards (i have problems playing it a 800x600 minimum details on a xp1800 with geforce2 400) but the gameplay is simply boring. you get stuck in endless corridors which have no visual difference one from the other, then you have to make your way back. the enemies are often stupid and their characterization is almost non-existent (you don't think "die! you ugly b@#*@°% alien!"... it's more like "uh.. now i shoot another bunch of colored polygons". worst FPS i ever played. m… Expand

this game isn't deep, the enemy is stupid, the graphics are bad (but good for when it came out, i guess) your freinds are stupid, and the whole game consists of running around shooting aliens. nothing strategic. nothing to nmake you think. just twitchy point-and-click action.

The game is so boring that i sold it for my friend and never finished it. Nothing happens in the game. i don`t know what other people see in shooting some midgets (or elfs). The only plus that i gave was for the "halo" that looked fine in the outside areas.

A game most suitable for age 8 to 14. One of the alien bot model looked like a crab and moved like a toddler in diaper. Most of the models in the game are TOYS and TOYS, toys for 5 to 8 y.o. When you ran out of ammo of a specific gun, you need to held the same gun in hand before you can pick up the same dropped gun model by your feet. Max mouse sensitivity is too slow on some Compaq made mice. Texture resolution compared to UT2003 is weak, model detail is pathetic. AI skill is average. I can clocked the game with difficulty Heroic without using the rocket launcher or the pistol that has the zoom view. The Warthog armored vehicle are not meant to be driving in some locations but if you know how you can actually drive the Warthog into some building structure's broad corridors and later when backing you way out and leaving the place you can used the mounted gun at the back of the vehicle to take out those harder to kill beasts (not meant to be played that way). Not many games has the projectiles fired from the a small handheld gun that has the lock-on effects of a missile. If you know how (editing game scripts), a game like Tread Marks, all of the game's fired projectiles from all the weapons could have the lock-on effect of a missile, including the fired cannon shell from those tanks. There are a lots of games out there released around 2002 and 2003 that can be a very good replacement for this game Halo, other than paying over priced $ just for a little Halo and Microsoft, I'd rather spent the $ on multiple games like UT2003, Unreal 2 and Tread Marks, and many more. Microsoft (Microft) is wasting their time by making Halo 2 Vista and above only, they kicked the XP users out for some nuts! I tried to copy Halo 2 from one hard disk partition to another, it takes over 30 minutes to finish, and there are about 4 prompts (about between 6 minutes per pop up prompt) that asked me if I'd want to move the read-only file or not, then another prompt that asked me to move a network file or not, AND THEN it's the system file, AND THEN it's a WTF file ... blah blah blah! Why can't Microsoft just ask me from the very start of the file transaction that if I'm a 12y.o-window-user or not, and that I know what I'm doing so just transfer all the files once and for all! I need to wait by my PC for over 30 minutes because there will be pop up prompts now and then telling me that Microsoft hired people that only knows how to feed donkeys like Billidiot Noob Gate$, so it's must be some illness as why everyone should be playing Halo and Halo 2. The up thing about Halo was that it has some flying and land vehicles that you'll see in UT2004, but I don't even play UT2004's vehicles either!… Expand

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Halo on PC is the most overated and worst port for a time when FPS gaming was in its prime.

For starters its framerate is bad and choppy and people who say otherwise has got a win 7 gaming laptop or extremly good graphhics card from 2010, the graphics are quite bad, The level design is poor and worst of all the game is allmost unplayable on most older computers and the gameplay is so dodgy that It makes me want to tell developers to stop messing the hell around and make a game worth playing for more then an hour.

Worst FPS period… Expand

WTF!!!! Why does this game run so slow. My Computer Specs 3200+, 512mb DDR Dual Channel, and 128MB Geforce FX 5600 Ultra. My Xbox Specs 733mhz p3 64MB Geforce = (TI 500) and I'm only getting and average of 34 FPS @ 640x480 thats with 1.4 pixel shader enable, with 2.0 it's even worst. Why even bother to add 1600x1200 not even an ati 9800 pro can run at that resolution? Bungie why didn't you finish the job? Gearbox nice port, but it runs way to slow for graphics that are 2 years old. Come on guys I don't think your minimum requirements of 733 and 32mb 3D card is even reasonable to play this game. I'm not giving this game a good score, because it wasn't ready for release and needs a major overhaul in the performance department.… Expand

This game is horrible.... and anyone who gave it a good rating either has the fastest computer on earth that can actually run this game.... or you only have an xbox and decided to rate the pc version just to feel special since you dont have a computer to play a real FPS like Countet Strike or Medal of Honor to name a few.... the graphics suck... the mechanics and the game engine suck too.... HORRIBLE rushed port to the pc.. stay clear from this trash.… Expand

The game runs terrible! I have a p4 3200,1 gig of pc32oo ram dual memory with a geforce 5900 ultra and you have to drop the resolution to 800x600 to get decent framerate,stay away!

I am simply tired of spending $50 only to deal with poorly designed software. EVERY other current FPS game I own runs smooth as silk on my PC. I'm sorry but Microsoft needs to re-think their development dept. and release processes. Freelancer to Halo, Win2k to XP all equal to one thing . . 40 thousand plus known bugs and a series of additional lawsuits to come. HALO? Go find a spot to spin because when DOOM3 and HL2 comes out, I really do pity you and your uneducated programmers . . . . DOOM3 and HL2 *drool* … Expand

OK i really like the game it has ok graphics and good game play but YES the game does seem to have just a few problems !!! Im running Win2k 512 ram 2700, AMD 2600, Radeon 9600 pro. and well it chucks to no end. I finding its getting worse the more i play the game. Later levels don't help. And im running at 1024 by 768 i did have it on 1280 by 1024 but my god i have changed all my settings in windows like Tru form and AA has been turned off. God Microsoft sucks.… Expand

While I'm impressed with the level of thought and detail this game offers, the simple fact is: this is just another FPS. At this point in time, unless it differentiates itself somehow, really what's the point? Halo XBOX had such a thing -- it's multiplayer coop story mode. Why this was removed from the PC edition is beyond me; without it, this is just another boring shooter. About the only thing more tiring and boring than FPS are all these pointless Massively Multiplayer online games (evercrack, etc...). Yo game developers, try something new and different (like 'There'). Back to playing SSX3 on my console, the best current game out on any system... … Expand

Man, im trying run this game on a amd xp2200 athlon on a k7 triton nforce2 chipset with 1.5 gb of DDR dual channel ram with a geforce FX 5200 AGP 8x 128 DDR and it has trouble in 1024 x 768 wtf is microsoft thinking????!! i can run Epic's Unreal 2 faster than a monkys ass tho!

I am very disappointed in the game... it seems to run OK on my P4 3.2/1Gb DDR/Radeon 9800 pro, but the game looks pooooooor. As if the maps were made by some 5y old kid. Driving those vehicles with a mouse is only fun for players who love to have RSI... I love to play CTF but not in HALO... To me, for online gaming, BF42 and SOF2 are fun better!

All i can say is - WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!! ive got a p4 3Ghz, 1 gig of ddr 400 memory, geforce FX 5600 Ultra and the game is barely playable. ive downloaded the update and its still the same. it must be running at like 10fps or maybe less. probably going to take it back this weekend. pfft...

Veryveryveryvery choppy, when, for like 2 seconds, it doesnt chop up, i might get a kill, but otherwise its not worth my time.

The Game is very very slow on my computer. It is the first game that runs so slow on my machine. I have AMD 3200+ o/c 2500Mhz with 512DDR/400 and GEFORCE 5600 ultra. HELLO MICROSOFT FIX THIS GAME WITH A PATCH!!!

Pfff. Some of you are either quite, quite insane or you haven't bothered to actually play the PC version before you rate the game. First of all you cannot have refresh rate fix installed at the same time as halo so all your opengl games will blind you at 60Hz as long as you have halo installed. Second. You cannot have anti aliasing on with a GeForce 4200 and probably most Nvidia and maybe even ATI cards. This means that the game will be jaggy and look as smooth as something from 1998. Thirdly. Even WITHOUT anti aliasing the game runs VERY slowly. Even after turning all shadows and specular lights off and most of the other effects. it was STILL slow jerky as hell in fact. Fourthly Bad voice animation and timing in cutscenes makes things even worse. And just a million other crappy things. For instance when most characters talk their lips don't even move. And I don't mean they don't move in sync I mean they DO NOT MOVE. Basically I don't know what the hell is going on over at Microsoft games but if these and other games developers cannot start making good PC versions of XBOX games then just stop it. I don't care if they are easier for you to convert instead of starting from scratch, but I'm not paying good money for your shoddy work. All PC games that have been converted from XBOX should come with a warning or a reduced price tag if we have to expect this shoddiness.… Expand

So I'm playing this game now, in 2009, because I had luck to get a bargain Halo 2 - and so I also got Halo on Ebay, so I can start the story at the beginning. Well, the game got out in 2003 - and it doesn't show. If I'd play this in 2003, I might have been mildly entertained, but just mildly. I can't understand the fauvorable reviews. The game is just stupid, boring, repetitive, unintuitive, whatever negative you can imagine. Halo was released a year or two after the likes of Max Payne, Deus Ex, Mafia, Star Trek Voyager, Medal of Honor, same year as Max Payne 2, Unreal II... It's just no competition. Halo is comparable with shitty, stupid games such as James Bond Nightfire (funny the PC versions are both from the same company Gearbox). Gore is also quite comparable in unintuitiveness. I don't know about multiplayer, but the single player campaign is a thing to avoid. What happened to Bungie anyway?… Expand

I can't even rate this ****ing game cuz I haven't been able to run it! It says certain NVidia chips have serious issues running it. WTF! A lot of ppl run Nvidia and to put out a game that dosnt even support many Nvidia chipsets is a waste of time. I am running a Nivida Vanta and it SHOULD run but it doesnt!

So inferior to the xbox version its puzzling. The controller literaly adds a new dimension to the game. On the xbox Halo is a game of strategy and sheer skill. On the pc its a slow and typical FPS with good level design.

Very poor game. Starts off boring, makes its way through tedious, and eventually sinks to the levels of utter drivel. The look and feel of the game are enough to make me feel sick, it either looks incredibly bland with concrete slabs everywhere, or disgusting bright colours. The "fearsome" alien race consists mainly of comical (except it's not funny) koopa troopers that run around shrieking and waving their arms around. The level design seems to be a lesson in cutting and pasting - how many times should I be made to go through the same room? The praise this game receives completely baffles me because I can't find a single positive thing to say about it.… Expand

Broken... it was a broken product. The multiplayer server browser was ungodly slow, the graphics were ugly and dated, not to mention buggy, and then that gameplay was nothing short of underwhelming in light of all the high profile PC shooters in the last four years.... Terrible.